LETTER: Secular humanism leads to suffering

David South Vance

Published: Sunday, January 6, 2013 at 3:30 a.m.

Last Modified: Friday, January 4, 2013 at 8:12 p.m.

Dear Editor: In the past, I have read some very erroneous statements from readers in your letters to the editor section, but Wendy Rawlings’ answer to the question, “Without God, from where does morality come?,” is the most erroneous!

Her answer (The Tuscaloosa News, Dec. 28) is “secular humanism.” Really! From secular humanism comes morality? Apparently, she is not a student of history. From secular humanism comes Karl Marx, Vladimir Lenin, Joseph Stalin and the Soviet Union. From secular humanism comes Adolf Hitler and the Third Reich. From secular humanism comes Fidel Castro and the Cuban Socialist State. From secular humanism comes Mao Zedong and the People’s Republic of China. And we could go on and on with examples of oppression, pain and suffering that has come from the “philosophy and social justice” of secular humanism.

If she truly believes that morality comes from secular humanism, then to quote my “dogma,” (the words of Jesus Christ, Matthew 15:14) “If the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch.”

<p>Dear Editor: In the past, I have read some very erroneous statements from readers in your letters to the editor section, but Wendy Rawlings' answer to the question, “Without God, from where does morality come?,” is the most erroneous!</p><p>Her answer (The Tuscaloosa News, Dec. 28) is “secular humanism.” Really! From secular humanism comes morality? Apparently, she is not a student of history. From secular humanism comes Karl Marx, Vladimir Lenin, Joseph Stalin and the Soviet Union. From secular humanism comes Adolf Hitler and the Third Reich. From secular humanism comes Fidel Castro and the Cuban Socialist State. From secular humanism comes Mao Zedong and the People's Republic of China. And we could go on and on with examples of oppression, pain and suffering that has come from the “philosophy and social justice” of secular humanism.</p><p>If she truly believes that morality comes from secular humanism, then to quote my “dogma,” (the words of Jesus Christ, Matthew 15:14) “If the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch.”</p>